As Hurricane Ian repairs and clean-up are getting started in Florida, one North Texas native is observing a Florida hurricane at close range.
Arlington native and Sam Houston High School grad Julie Krueger now lives on the side of Tampa Bay where Ian's counter-clockwise rotation caused an un-familiar phenomenon. Rather than pushing the bay water up on the beach, the ferocious winds actually pushed the water out to sea for a while.
Krueger saw so much water flow out that curiosity seekers waded out into the shallows, quite a ways out. Apparently oblivious that, eventually, the water would flood back in with a vengeance.
Police were sent out to order the waders back in before they got swamped by the returning sea.
Krueger says growing up in Texas, tornadoes are one thing -- they develop quickly, strike and are gone just as quickly. But hurricanes are something different -- she says waiting days for them to develop and approach and then ravage the coast for hours -- she calls that a "different kind of torture."
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